…”I think the fun story will be – and we have the opportunity here – is this is what regeneration can do to you. He can be very, very different.”

“People really love Jenna, so we make the Doctor quite difficult…”

…Moffat likens the situation to Tom Baker’s first season: “He’s really quite difficult to take at the beginning, and you’re very grateful that Sarah and the Brigadier are there to reassure you.”

All I have to say is oh yes….

Plus he told Doctor Who Magazine:

“The special ties up stuff from all corners of Matt’s tenure – there are things I set in motion in Matt’s very first episode that I’m paying off now.”

“It’s been a long game, but most of the questions that people ask will be answered…”

“One of the horrors of regeneration is that a certain amount of his persona alters entirely. His appetites and his enthusiasms will change. And that’s sort of what I’m writing about now in Matt’s last episode, the fact that he’s terribly aware that he’s about to be rewritten. And it’s frightening.”